General Call Information

Both ECSEL Calls 2017 have two stages, Project Outline (stage 1) and Full Project Proposal (stage 2). The submission of a Project Outline is mandatory, only proposals having submitted a Project Outline will be allowed to submit a Full Project Proposal.

Full details of the topics open for proposals, terms and conditions for participation and funding budgets are available in the ECSEL JU Work Plan for 2017.

The topics for all Calls are described in the ECSEL Multi-Annual Strategic Plan (MASP), document ECSEL-GB-2017.78.
(Note that the calls in 2017 do not address the “Excellence and competence centres” and the “Innovation support actions”).

Applicants must refer to both these documents in their proposals and must describe their proposal using the Part B template (Pdf) for ECSEL-JU. This Part B template showed here is just for reference; the valid Part B template needs to be downloaded during proposal submission via the Participant Portal at the above mentioned ECSEL Call pages: H2020-ECSEL-2017-1-IA-two-stage or H2020-ECSEL-2017-2-RIA-two-stage.

RIA differs from the IA in the technology readiness level focus and, therefore, in the applicable reimbursement rates. For funding rates of the RIA and IA but also for the national contribution please refer to the ECSEL JU Work Plan for 2017.

Applicants may submit proposals referring to cost items contributing towards the milestones and deliverables of an action that are independently funded by other European sources.

Applicants must contact the National Funding Authorities (refer to the National contact points for the ECSEL programme in Annex 6 of the ECSEL JU Work Plan for 2017) in their own countries before submitting the proposals to check their eligibility and conditions for receiving national funding.

Beneficiaries from some countries require the submission of Part(s) C (please refer to Annex 6 of the Work Plan for more information). The Part(s) C require en encryption/password provided by the ECSEL JU office. The participants are kindly reminded to email the ECSEL JU office to get the password at calls@ecsel.europa.eu.

Applicants, who wish to submit an Expression of Interest (EoI) for an ECSEL JU Lighthouse Initiative, must use the EoI template (pdf) (“3-page document”). The EoI Template shown here it is just for reference; the valid EoI template needs to be downloaded during proposal submission via the Participant Portal as indicated for Part B Template above. NO action is needed for the PO phase. The EoI will only be submitted at the FPP Phase (same deadline). For more details, applicants must refer to ECSEL JU Work Plan for 2017 and ECSEL JU Calls – Guide for applicants 2017.

Budget

The tables below show the actual figures of the ECSEL Participating States commitments included in the ECSEL JU Work Plan 2017 as well as all received from them in the meantime. The figures below will be included in the future Work Plan 2017 update that shall be adopted by the Governing Board in due time.

The budgetary figures given are indicative. The total public funds awarded by the ECSEL Joint Undertaking to projects arising from this call, following the evaluation and selection of proposals, may differ from the total budget of the call.

Estimated expenditures

EU Estimated expenditure for the IA Call: 92.5 M€ (1).

EU Estimated expenditure for the Call for RIAs: 67.5 M€ (1)

ECSEL Participating State

Estimated expenditure (M€)

IAs

RIAs

Both IAs-RIAs

Total

Austria (2)

7

7

Belgium-Flanders

12

12

Belgium-Brussels

1

1

Bulgaria

0

Czech Republic

1.5

1.5

3

Denmark

0

Finland

2.5

2.5

5

France

28.3

3.7

32

Germany (3)

38

38

Greece

0

Hungary

1

1

Ireland

2

2

Israel

8

8

Italy (5) (7)

11.2

17.4

28.6

Latvia

0.42

0.42

Malta

0

Netherlands

10

10

20

Norway

2.2

2.2

Poland

1.5

1.5

Portugal

0

Romania

2.6

2.6

Slovak Republic

0.8

0.8

Spain (4)

6

6

Sweden

5.5

5.5

United Kingdom

0

0

Turkey

3

3

EU

92.5

67.5

160

Total

147.5

104.1

88.88

342.6

(1)

Pending the corresponding financing decision to be adopted by the European Commission in 2017 and 2018.

Subject to final approval by financial authorities

1M from MINECO, 5M from MINETAD. The contribution of MINETAD could change when the budget for 2017 is approved and the economic scenario changes.

(5)

10M€ from MISE, 2.4M€ from MIUR. 15M€ from ESI Funds.

(7)

including 1,184,500€ from Lombardia, Pemonte, Emilia Romagna and Sicilia

Guidelines

Information specific to the ECSEL calls can be found in the ECSEL JU Calls – Guide for applicants 2017 document.

If the answer to your question is not found there, please e-mail your question to calls@ecsel.europa.eu, giving full details of your question and how we can get back to you. (Note that any personal information that you may provide in this way will only be used to contact you with reference to your question).